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New Cast Information For 'Hitchhiker's' Movie
Kathleen writes "I was listening to the old Hitchiker's radio plays, and feeling nostalgic, I decide to check out how the movie version was going along. Well, they've filled out some important parts, Zaphod and Marvin have been cast. Zaphod is played by Sam Rockwell who's most recently been in Matchstick Men and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Marvin is being played by Warwick Davis (Who was Willow Ufgood in Willow). Slartibartfast will be played by Bill Nighy. This news is a little distressing, since I was under the impression that Stephen Moore would still be handling the voice of Marvin."
You mean Warwick Davis won't be up for the next season of The Littlest Groom.
Son of a bitch.
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Mos Def as Ford Prefect?
I know they are going to ruin it now. It's going to flop and everyone is going to talk about how much the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sucks without knowing the triumph of the original radio, television and book series.
In the original radio, TV and book series, Ford Prefect was an alien who tried to assume a hipster personality circa 1978. I guess the choice of Mos Def is supposed to have a hipster character that is appropriate to 2004. But all you HHGTTG fans and I know that this is going to wind up being the HHGTTG meets Men In Black. I'll bet it will have some funky hip-hop soundtrack as well. Sorry, but to me, this is like a parody of a parody within a parody. It's like Saturday Night Live doing Masterpiece Theater with Nelly as host. HOw disappointing.
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I know it's been decided but I can't help that Rowan Atkinson would be a great Ford Prefect... there's just something not quite right about his nose...
Actually, I don't think Zaphod with an American accent is all that far off. I always took Zaphod's character to be a parody of the stereotypical American anyway.
Any quick peruse of his IMDB profile will tell you that. However, how are the casual readers supposed to identify him if I refer to the role where he was in a large fuzzy suit and you could neither hear his voice nor see his face. Willow Ufgood is probably his most recognizable role. May a thousand Brownies torment you by lodging in your undergarments until my geek badge is rightfully returned. visit septic Korea!
I never read Zaphod as having a British accent. He always seemed like the typical Californian surfer dude to me.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Probably Howard Stableford, he used to present the BBCs Tommorrows World, but now he does just about every narration I've heard in the last few years.
Am I the only one who pictured Marvin as being as tall as the other humanoid characters? Well, as tall as them if he was always slouched over? The comic book adapation of HHGTG had his look pretty spot on, in my opinion. Were did this Ewok stuff come from?
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"Actually I think that would be the majority of robot movies."
Fine example being Dot Matrix from "Spaceballs". Voice by Joan Rivers, but the actual actor was Lorene Yarnell.
Putting the romance back into necromancer.
I would like to see C3PO playing Marvin, a maniacally depressed coward of robot ...
...what if the human attacks me? opens up my brain? Awww if only R2D2 were here !!"
Tricia: "Marvin will you go and bring the hitchhikers to the bridge?"
C3PO : "Me with a brain the size of a planet. And she wants me to bring a human to the bridge. Hey, waitaminnit
I think Tom Baker would be excellent. He was one of the Doctor Whos and narrated 'Little Britain' (sketch comedy show made last year in Britain (oddly enough). His voice is quite deep and gravely but with lots of range when he uses it and it is totally English. It's a very nice voice to listen to explaining things.
"This is crazy, you realise we could all go to jail for this?" - my manager, somewhere I used to work.
Apparently when sorting out the casting, Douglas Adams said that the book should have a "Peter Jonesy type voice". After much head scratching over who could manage a voice like Peter Jones someone suggested actually asking Peter Jones. They were stunned when he said yes.
If they had any sense the current producers would ask the original producers who they had as plan B.
Without any research into what music will be used in the reincarnation of HGTTG, I will have to vote for the original scoring.
The original music for moments when the Guide was speaking are imprinted into my brain and shall never be replaced.
I fear that in an effort to reach a "new, technical, and increasingly eye-candy based" audience, they will subvert classic harmonies into new age parodies.
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His picture on imdb.com looks a lot like Mark Wing-Davey.
I agree with the awful roles he's done. I thought Jerry Lewis was annoying, and Carrey's humorous roles were just a lame copy. When I first heard he was going to be in Charlie Kaufman's next movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I was fearful. But I just saw the trailer today. Damn, that looks good.
Check out the 'Executive Producer' credit on imdb
That would be quite a trick!
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
I think Tim Curry would make a good narrator. He's no stranger to voice acting, either, as he did the voice for the Gabriel Knight games series (not including the lackluster second-installment).... and he's British!
But Maaa! Everyone else has a